I have often said they should make another Pokémon game that doesn't involve fighting and, well, Pokopia is fantastic.
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I have often said they should make another Pokémon game that doesn't involve fighting and, well, Pokopia is fantastic.
Much like the entire US tax system
Doing my US tax return involves telling them how much money is in my UK pension, so yesterday I found myself driving 10 minutes to an area where Three UK has a tower with a roaming agreement just so I could receive an MFA code to log in and see the amount, to tell the IRS, so they can ignore it.
If this ends up being an actual test of how much DoD contracts are worth to various companies I am going to be very curious about the result, because the DoD are far from winning that everywhere.
"The 34-year-old plumber also apologised to customers who have booked her as 'I'm heading to Parliament'". Amazing.
Lovely work Gorton and Denton, and congratulations to Hannah Spencer. Resounding win for hopefulness and sensible politics. #ukpol
Learning GDScript as I play around with Godot. I always love understanding a language that is designed very particularly, especially one with Python influences.
Cali is such a great place to learn, too (aside from the complex airspace near LA and SF)!
Unfortunately, while I got to the hotel quickly, it turns out that the hotel aggregator that my company's travel agency made a hotel booking through took the money but didn't actually make the reservation due to a "system error", and now they are arguing about who pays for it while I wait.
I do love the feeling when you peel away from the hordes of people going towards Lyft/Uber at SFO, walk onto the BART platform, get on a train and it leaves 30 seconds later. Already in Daly City before I would even have got picked up.
Terra Nil is good but it's really a short puzzle game rather than a true automation game
It does, but it is still (even humorously) about a convict sent to strip-mine a planet
Just found some game design idea notes of mine for an automation/factory game and the top two notes are "should be optimistic" and "anti-colonialist". Not bad.
I am supposed to get a lot of personal admin done this weekend and it feels like fiddling on the roof as Rome burns. At least the cats are happy and snoozing without a care in the world.
A huge hotel lobby (the biggest in the world) with seventeen floors staggered in so they get closer and closer near the top. It's all clean concrete and coloured lighting.
Finally got a chance to stay in one of my favourite examples of brutalism, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. As the front desk clerk joked when I asked to check out - "Why would you want to leave?"
"Spend company money like it's your own", says our expense policy. So you're saying the company should buy five 3D printers, import lots of British chocolate, and acquire a series of increasingly esoteric laptops?
The scaling is better than linear as you spread it out between a bunch of machines and also as you get a larger KV cache that can skip a lot of the first parts of inference. They're probably still running at a slight loss, but it's not wild.
This was an interesting use of LLM assistance to help with some of the HID/event code; good at dealing with the general C stuff and interactions, but failed when it got to edge cases in the HID reports. Still, it was a big speed increase; saved me re-researching a lot of "how do I do <X> in C".
I have had the Lenovo Yoga Book 9 for just two days, and I have already solved the bottom-touchscreen driver issue in Linux with some terrifying C code: github.com/andrewgodwin...
I should probably go submit a hid-multitouch patch, but this gets things working immediately for now.
A 13 inch laptop, but where the keyboard normally is there's another screen the same size as the top one.
The same laptop but with a touchscreen keyboard and touchpad on the bottom screen.
The same laptop but now propped up on its included stand, running Linux and with an ergonomic split keyboard in front.
The same laptop, but now with its bundled bluetooth/magnetic keyboard and running Factorio spread across both screens.
Did I need the silly two-screen laptop? No. Am I delighted with the build and OLED screen quality, surprised how useable the touchscreen keyboard-and-touchpad Lenovo wrote for it is, and happy that a decent amount works in Linux out of the box? Yes.
(Also, what a way to play Factorio)
Carney even touched on the idea of BYD opening a factory in Canada with local workers, which would completely roast the North American car market
Went to a lovely local bakery/brunch place this morning that had "Croissants and Gravy" on the menu and I am torn between this being a food crime and being actual genius.
It is also on Windows and Linux, just not on Switch or Xbox sadly. It's absolutely fantastic though.
Passed my EMR exam so I am now certified to give oxygen, splint things, patch up bad holes, and mostly go "oh yes, you really need someone much more qualified than me".
Will probably go up to EMT at some point but that requires quite a bit more hands-on training!
A grey and white cat standing in front of a Christmas tree. The ground around the tree is covered with sheets of black spikes, but there are presents on the centre section.
Pictured: One cat, shortly before he realises that now there are presents under the tree he can avoid the anti-cat spikes and try to climb it
How. How can they live like this.
Nice long break means I can finally get around to rewriting my travel checklist app properly (and add on the house regular-maintenance items functionality I want).
Past me would have added users and stuck it up for everyone; now I'm instead thinking "what if I didn't go through all that hassle?"
In rather excellent news, we're now at the point where a light aircraft can detect its pilot being incapacitated and successfully land and then shut the engines off fully automatically. My hat is off to the Garmin engineers who built this system.
avbrief.com/autoland-sav...
For reasons known only to myself, I documented and reviewed nine different Christmas sandwiches on my trip back to London. Please, maybe, enjoy.
(Mostly I wanted to get practice at lower-effort single take filming!)
youtube.com/watch?v=cF2-...
A hand wearing an exoskeleton-style glove in very 2000s plastic, on a London bus.
Took delivery of an extremely 2000's VR glove in the pub.
Yes I am on the bus. I have no shame.